> Yes, it would appear this is a legacy thing that existed in the original > 1994 import of the BSD 4.4 Lite source. Both FreeBSD and NetBSD still > use this technique, but OpenBSD changed to using Red-Black trees back in > Feb 2002.
What is more interesting is to look at the actual benchmark results in http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/ in particular the section about mmap benchmarks, the only one where OpenBSD shines. However as soon as touching pages is benchmarked OpenBSD fails very much. -- Michel TALON _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"